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Interviews with students who switched to the social sciences or humanities reveal that the disillusionment is driven by a number of problems in the University’s science curriculum??from large, impersonal introductory courses to the time-intensive nature of the disciplines and the highly competitive peers...
...Computer literacy is a technical skill,” Jenkins said. “What we want to do is integrate the skills we identify across the curriculum??taking a subject like authorship in a language arts class, and showing how you reconceptualize it using these new skills and building on them. Skills don’t have to be high-tech to be effective...
...complete advanced coursework through a secondary field in a department outside their concentration. That being said, not all departments should rush to end joint concentrations—although those that have found them problematic should be free to do so. As the administration renews its focus on the undergraduate curriculum??and advising in particular—its decisions must be cognizant of student interest in terms of both substance and implementation. That this change was neither timed well nor communicated effectively represents a serious pitfall on the part of the administration. That being said, the decision...
...other business, Professor Jay M. Harris—chair of the committee in charge of transitioning away from the Core Curriculum??said at the meeting that the present estimate is that the class of 2013 will be the first to graduate solely under the new General Education system...
...Intercollegiate Studies Institute has long pushed for reforming higher education along more classical lines—and at the same time for integrating neo-conservative ideas into the college curriculum??and I see this study...as a political effort designed to energize such reforms,” Neil Gross, associate professor of sociology at Harvard, wrote in an e-mail. But Andrews said that the goals of the survey transcend any ideological lines...